Car Quotes - Page 7

• I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

  Taylor Swift

  Mom, Sleep, Cities

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• With all the hybrid stuff and things like that, I think that's a fabulous direction to go with cars in that sense. As someone who grew up around muscle cars, I'll never not be able to not love a muscle car. Not that I don't care about the environment, that's not it. But I adore muscle cars.

  Michael Symon

  Thinking, Able, Stuff

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• I drive a hybrid, moving into an electric car. I only drink tap water, never consume food that's travelled.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Moving, Water, Drink

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• A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in life than in housekeeping. Keep the time, observe the hours of the universe, not of the cars.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Book, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• We get picked up in these Rolls Royces and get three miles down the highway and five cop cars pull us over.

  Johnny Thunders

  Three, Cop, Rolls Royce

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• Cars, furs, and gems were not my weaknesses.

  Gene Tierney

  Weakness, Fur, Gems

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Doors, Talking, Sky

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May, 2008.

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• My manager has a car payment, so I work every night.

  Carrot Top

  Night, Payment, Managers

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• There are two things that won't last long in this world, and that's dogs chasing cars and pros putting for pars.

  Lee Trevino

  Funny, Dog, Two

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• The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

  Bob Uecker

  Son, Errors, Games

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• I'm still that little girl who lisped and sat in the back of the car and threw vegetables at the back of her head when we drove home from the market. That never goes.

  Tracey Ullman

  Girl, Home, Vegetables

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• Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

  John Updike

  Home, Literature, Driving

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• Okay, let's talk about cartoon labels for half a second - some people think anything with a dog or a car or a colorful alien is garbage, which is not true. Look at Big Moose Red. It's, like, a $6 wine with a cheesy label, and it's actually a solid wine.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Dog, Wine, Thinking

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• A car is a 2,000 pound projectile that can go 100 miles an hour.

  Jesse Ventura

  Pounds, Hours, Miles

  "Piers Morgan Tonight", transcripts.cnn.com. September 17, 2012.

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• You hear about things happening to people - they slip in the bathtub, fall down the stairs, step off the curb in London because they think that the cars come the other way - and they die. You feel you want to die making an effort at something; you don't want to die in some unnecessary way.

  Christopher Walken

  Fall, Thinking, People

  "Christopher Walken Offered Natalie Wood Death Theory in Past Interview" by Sophie Schillaci, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 18, 2011.

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• The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

  Murray Walker

  Unique, Motor Racing, Nascar Racing

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• And that just shows you how important the car is in Formula One Racing.

  Murray Walker

  Racing, Important, Formula 1

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• I'm a car fanatic and each morning I wake up with a smile on my face, whether I'm commentating on the Formula One or at Silver Hatch racetrack in Roary the Racing Car.

  Murray Walker

  Smile, Morning, Racing

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• I have an airplane hangar with 17 cars in it. That's no joke. I have a 'half pipe' in there, too - you know, like a big ramp, where I skateboard. It's awesome. It's the ultimate fantasy.

  Paul Walker

  Airplane, Half, Fantasy

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• The newly decorated theatres produced things like car parks and restaurants, so you could have a good night out, quite cheaply without all that bother of having to go somewhere else.

  Timothy West

  Good Night, Goodnight, Somewhere Else

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• When I was a kid, maybe 11, I remember saying, "When I grow up I wanna have enough money to buy a really cool car, because I won't."

  Joss Whedon

  Growing Up, Kids, Remember

  "Joss Whedon Talks THE CABIN IN THE WOODS, THE AVENGERS, His Writing Process, Comic-Con, Collecting and More". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. April 5, 2012.

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• My country's main exports are stolen cars and sadness.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Country, Sadness, Stolen

  Aleksandar Hemon (2009). “The Lazarus Project”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• Care to see your room?” -Bones Let me guess—it’s that smashed‐up car right over there." -Cat

  Jeaniene Frost

  Cat, Rooms, Bones

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• The car suddenly veered off the road and we came to a sliding halt in the gravel. I was hurled against the dashboard. My attorney was slumped over the wheel. “What’s wrong?” I yelled. “We can’t stop here. This is bat country!

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Country, Bats, Dashboards

  Hunter S. Thompson (2011). “The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales from a Strange Time”, p.535, Simon and Schuster

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• I owned a Ferrari, a Range Rover, a Mercedes 560SL convertible, a Jeep Cherokee and a Nissan 300ZX. I can't remember the intricate decision tree I had to climb in order to determine which one to drive to work on any given day - it probably had something to do with the weather, or which car had more gas in the tank, or upholstery that best matched whatever shirt I happened to throw on that morning.

  Michael J. Fox

  Morning, Order, Weather

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